These two eagle-shaped pins were discovered in central Spain and date to the early sixth century, when the Visigoth Kingdom ...
“These days, better than a tweet,” as one stylist put it. By Linda Dyett Widely considered stodgy and trite, brooches have been seriously out of fashion ever since the power-suit-ridden “Dynasty” ...
FORMAL, CEREMONIAL AND a little set in their ways, brooches haven’t always been the most sought-after pieces in the jeweler’s window. A fixed idea of where they belong—on a blazer’s lapel, at the ...
TO THE MODERN WOMAN, the word "brooch'" conjures images of a prim, social-register grandmother—a sister accessory to the pillbox hat. That seems unfair. After all, its fellow bits of bijoux like the ...